Beautiful Open Data Maps for the Whole World: Stamen Maps Are Live | Presentation Tools | Scoop.it

Robin Good: If you are looking for a map of any part of the world that you can freely adopt, customize and use for your online project, the maps.stamen.com is now available online.


You can call up any location on the planet and select between three different map styles: 

a) Terrain (USA only)

b) Watercolor

b) Toner

 

"maps.stamen.com, the second installment of the City Tracking project funded by the Knight News Challenge, is live.


These unique cartographic styles and tiles, based on data from Open Street Map, are available for the entire world, downloadable for use under a under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, and free.


Also, check out how the watercolor maps have been created.(Source: http://tulpinspiration.tumblr.com/post/20002323504/maps-stamen-com-is-live)


Try it out now: http://maps.stamen.com/